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"If anyone could let me know when this is going to include Echo Company, or any due diligence on the part of the author, I'd be grateful" — Aug 22, 2024 02:58AM
"If anyone could let me know when this is going to include Echo Company, or any due diligence on the part of the author, I'd be grateful" — Aug 22, 2024 02:58AM
The Church of St Nicolas in Messines, with its foundation stone laid in 1057 by Countess Adela of France, mother of an English queen, was gradually reduced to rubble. Her crypt now served as a German first aid and command post.11 Messines’
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“Military science has from time immemorial been a book with seven seals, which none by the duly initiated were deemed worthy to open."
Ivan Bloch, 'The Wars of the Future”
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Ivan Bloch, 'The Wars of the Future”
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“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
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“I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.”
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“I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about”
― Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45
― Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45
“I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?”
― Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits
― Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits
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Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War
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